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A Software Suite for Testing the Performance of the Optical Trigger Motherboard Electronics System for the CMS Experiment at the LHC
(2013-09-28)
The Optical Trigger Mother Board (OTMB) and mezzanine card is part of the upgrade of the muon Level-1 trigger system of the Compact Muon Solenoid (CMS) experiment at the Large Hadron Collider (LHC). 72 of the new boards ...
Androgen Receptor Formation in Prenatally Endocrine Disrupted Mice
(2013-10-03)
Inactivity is one of the largest detriments in our society today. It has been estimated that about $434 billion are spent on inactivity related health problems in the United States per year (1). This dollar amount is only ...
ASSOCIATION PATTERNS OF COMMON BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS (Tursiops truncatus) IN THE GALVESTON SHIP CHANNEL, TEXAS
(2013-09-26)
Dolphins in many parts of the world follow fishing boats to eat fish and invertebrates stirred into the water column by them, and so do the dolphins that frequent Galveston Bay and the Galveston Ship Channel. These individuals ...
Mitochondrial DNA phylogenetic analysis of Myrmecolacidae (Insecta: Strepsiptera) va
(Texas A&M University, 2013-02-22)
The relationship between Caenocholax fenyesi Pierce (Myrmecolacidae) males (host: Solenopsis invicta) and females (host: Hapithus agitator) is examined. Further, the relationships between several unidentified myrmecolacid ...
Food products in impulse buying areas of grocery stores: Is temptation making Americans Obese?
(2013-09-25)
Americans are trying to figure out what to do about the increase of obesity and the related issues. I sought to understand the effects of a grocery store’s environment and the effect that it has on the behavior of buyers. ...
Improving Decoy Databases for Protein Folding Algorithms
(2013-09-24)
Predicting protein structures and simulating protein folding motions are two of the most important problems in computational biology today. Modern folding simulation methods rely on a scoring function which attempts to ...
I Want 'You': Pronouns and the Military
(2013-09-19)
This project involves analyzing the various ways in which the second-person pronoun “you” changes aspects of witnessing when discussing war. The goal is to examine various uses of the pronoun “you,” dissecting both the ...
BRILLOUIN SCATTERING SPECTROSCOPY AND MICROSCOPY: TECHNIQUES AND APPLICATIONS
(2013-09-24)
Brillouin Spectroscopy is a widely used optical technique for material characterization and analysis. Recent studies suggest that Brillouin spectroscopy can be extended into an imaging modality, which would present with ...
The Effect of Vortex Generators on Active Battery Thermal Management Solutions
(2013-02-06)
As a result of increasing oil prices and consumer environmental awareness, “green” products such as electric vehicles (EVs) have grown in popularity, but the energy storage technologies that make such products possible ...
EFFECT OF MICROSTRUCTURES IN LITHIUM ION BATTERY ELECTRODES
(2013-02-27)
In a Lithium-ion battery, increases in the effective conductivity can lead to a reduction in internal cell resistance and improved cell performance. Previous efforts to improve cell conductivity have focused on the effect ...